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"Why do I need to train my workforce?" Click here to find out why.
Written and spoken communication skills together with basic maths skills underpin all workplace activity. Skills for Life training can have a great impact on improving employees’ skills leading to significant effects on productivity and performance.
Want an innovative, entertaining and interactive way of getting the message across for the need for Skills for Life?
Click here to find out more about a new play, "No Worries?" which deals with financial literacy problems.
Train to Gain
Train to Gain is the single point of access for businesses such as yours to get the training advice and support you need to succeed.
The Learning and Skills Council’s Train to Gain service provides impartial, independent advice on training to businesses across England. It can help businesses improve their productivity and competitiveness by ensuring that employees have the right skills to do the best job.
Train to Gain gives you access to a skills broker who will carry out a needs analysis of training within your business and help you assess what skills your business has now and what you will need in the future.
Our future. It's in our hands.
Find out how Train to Gain can benefit your business, call us now on: 0845 600 9 006 or visit the Train to Gain website.
Skilled for Success
Did your Learning at Work Day event highlight some gaps in maths and English skills? Visit the Campaign for Learning's Skills for Life section on the Learning at Work Day website for information on what to do next. Their free downloadable guide on "Leading on Learning" also talks about how to approach Skills for Life needs. You can also order copies to distribute to managers.
If you held a Learning at Work Day event that promoted or supported Skills for Life learning, then you are eligible to enter for the Skills for Life best event award.
Don't forget, if you are promoting Skills for Life in your workplace Get On have some great materials which can be ordered for free from 020 7544 3130 or GetOnteam@fishburn-hedges.co.uk. Please quote LAW09 when ordering any materials. You can also direct individuals to the Get On website or helpline 0800 66 0800.
Do you work in the Health Sector?
One of the strategic objectives of Skills 
for Health is to 'Improve participation in learning and employability in the health sector workforce through implementation, with partners, of a strategy to improve language, literacy, numeracy and information technology skill levels'.
Literacy, language and numeracy (LLN) underpin skills and job competences which are essential for an organisation to achieve its goals. This website provides a resource which focuses on helping your organisation to develop a Whole Organisation Approach (WOA) to LLN, specifically developed for the health sector-http://lln.skillsforhealth.org.uk/
Do you work for a Local Authority?
Please click here for more information.
Do you work in any of the sectors listed below?
If so, click on the appropriate links for leaflets (one for employers and one for employees) which explain the Skills for Life needed to work in those sectors.
Assetskills - Facilities Management, Housing, Property & Planning, Cleaning and Parking - employer leaflet and employee leaflet
Proskills - Process and Manufacturing - employer leaflet and employee leaflet
Semta - Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies - employer leaflet and employee leaflet